Pin HD to Taskbar?


  1. Cam
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    Pin HD to Taskbar?


    How do I go about pinning my C: drive to the taskbar? Right-clicking the explorer icon is a pain in the ass.
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  3. Night Hawk
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    You can drag the C drive out of any Windows Explorer windows onto the desktop to see a shortcut created there. But you won't find any option for pinning that or even dragging it directly onto the taskbar itself. You simply use the shortcut to open a new explorer window directly to the drive itself.
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  4. Brink
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    Hello Cam,

    You can create a shortcut for the drive, then move it into a new folder at the location you want to store this at. Next, use the same method in the tutorial below to enable Quick Launch, but select the new folder instead.

    Quick Launch - Enable or Disable

    Hope this helps,
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  6. Night Hawk
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    You had the same idea I was going to suggest I see.
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  7. Brink
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    LOL, yep.
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